Early Neolithic executions indicated by clustered cranial trauma in the mass grave of Halberstadt

Christian Meyer; Corina Knipper; Nicole Nicklisch; Angelina Münster; Olaf Kürbis; Veit Dresely; Harald Meller; Kurt W. Alt

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04773-w

Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Early Neolithic executions indicated by clustered cranial trauma in the mass grave of Halberstadt

Christian Meyer,
Corina Knipper,
Nicole Nicklisch,
Angelina Münster,
Olaf Kürbis,
Veit Dresely,
Harald Meller,
Kurt W. Alt

Affiliations

Christian Meyer: State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory
Corina Knipper: Curt Engelhorn Centre Archaeometry gGmbH
Nicole Nicklisch: State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory
Angelina Münster: Institute of Anthropology, University of Mainz
Olaf Kürbis: State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory
Veit Dresely: State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory
Harald Meller: State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory
Kurt W. Alt: State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04773-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Prehistoric warfare and massacres of Linearbandkeramik (LBK) communities are evidenced by mass graves from the Early Neolithic of Central Europe. Here, Meyer et al. describe a newly discovered mass grave from Germany revealing the execution of a predominantly adult male group of non-local individuals.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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